Financial
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A law firm has launched an investigation into whether board members of Frontier Communications may have breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed merger with Verizon. -
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs
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Veon Group shareholders have expressed concern to the board about the company’s current strategy, citing the underperformance of its share price.
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Singtel has agreed to sell its stake in cybersecurity firm Trustwave for US$205 million.
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Since returning to telecoms in June 2020 as Ribbon Communication’s EVP and CFO, Miguel ‘Mick’ Lopez has had a lot to deal with. He talks to Saf Malik about how the company adapted and stabilised its operations during the pandemic.
Forthcoming events
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SEGRO has reached an agreement with European build-to-suit data centre firm Global Technical Realty (GTR) to develop its first UK-based facility - the largest data centre campus in the UK hotspot of Slough, just outside London.
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North American data centre services firm Cologix has acquired an interconnection facility from Zayo Group in Vancouver and is opening another data centre in Toronto.
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Hong Kong-headquartered Big Data Exchange (BDx) has opened the first phase of its 35MW NKG Data Center Campus in Nanjing (pictured), China.
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Minister of Communications, Yoaz Hendel, has confirmed that Israel is to abolish the split it imposed between infrastructure providers and internet service suppliers.
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MainOne is set to launch its Appolonia Data Center, the latest facility of its MDXi subsidiary.
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Dialog Axiata has opened another Tier 3 data centre near Colombo (pictured), Sri Lanka.
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Al Yah Satellite has confirmed that it is to go public in the third quarter of this year, with a listing on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange.
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Investment manager Amber Infrastructure Group has acquired a majority stake in Australian data centre firm iseek - Amber's first Australian digital infrastructure investment.
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Private equity investment firm Inflexion has acquired Manchester, UK cloud services provider ANS and is merging it with its existing CSP UKFast, also based in Manchester.
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Nominations for the Global Carrier Awards are now open.
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Season 2, episode 20 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Tiago Rodrigues, CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance.
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Bulk Infrastructure has achieved OCP Ready certification for all three of its Scandinavian data centres, offering greater scalability and flexibility to customers.
